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Tolkien calendar 74
Feb 9
2021/2/9 15:54:34 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
2021/2/9 15:54:34 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
In Pictures, in his note to no.47: Heraldic Devices, C. Tolkien says: "Eight of these devices were used on the back of the cover of The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendar 1974 (those of Finwë and Eärendil in slightly different forms)". The "different forms" bit is clearly true of the Finwë one, for which the Calendar cover shows a variant design (reproduced also in Artist, p.194). But the Eärendil device looks identical on the Calendar cover and in Pictures, as far as I can tell. Does anyone know what C. Tolkien was referring to here, as regards the Eärendil device? A lapsus on his part or on mine?
I could be mistaken but as far as I remember in Artist p. 193 a version of Eärendil’s Heraldic Device is reproduced and it is different from the one that is found in Pictures (The Picture one has more white dots while the one reproduced in Artist is characterized by some kind of white spikes inside the main girth) so maybe in the calendar we find the same variant that is present in Artist. Anyway I’ll leave the matter to more experienced people also because unfortunately I do not own the 1974 calendar. I’m interested so please post if you find something out.
P.S. I would be interested in seeing a photo of the Calendar's back if you don't mind, I did not succeed in finding one on the internet
P.S. I would be interested in seeing a photo of the Calendar's back if you don't mind, I did not succeed in finding one on the internet
Here's the back of the 1974 calendar
Here's Pictures:
Here's Artist & Illustrator:
Christina and Wayne say this in A&I (italics my additions)
The calendar back and Pictures image do appear to be the same to me, I think Christopher was referring to the device that appears in A&I.
Here's Pictures:
Here's Artist & Illustrator:
Christina and Wayne say this in A&I (italics my additions)
Eärendil's device, as drawn on the front of an envelope [190 pictured above] posted to Tolkien on 13 December 1960, seems to incorporate a Silmaril and blazes like the star Eärendil became. On the back of the envelope [not pictured in A&I] is a rough, apparently earlier design for Eärendil's device, containing a six-pointed star with two long points reaching to the top and bottom corners of the lozenge and four shorter points extending to the centres of the four sides.
The calendar back and Pictures image do appear to be the same to me, I think Christopher was referring to the device that appears in A&I.
Urulókë wrote:
The calendar back and Pictures image do appear to be the same to me, I think Christopher was referring to the device that appears in A&I.
Yes, the one in Artist must have been the one he was thinking of (though of course that was a long way from publication at the time he wrote this).
Thanks for the help, all!
Here's the full listing of images that appear in the 1974 Tolkien Calendar, should anyone want reference:
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_J.R.R._Tolkien_Calendar_1974_(UK)
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_J.R.R._Tolkien_Calendar_1974_(UK)
